Is there a modern Fdisk that sees large NTFS hard drives?

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Frank W.

My Fdisk included in a Win98 boot disk doesn't seem to recognize NTFS hard drives very well. Is there a
more modern version of Fdisk I can boot with on a floppy?
 
What are you trying to do with fdisk and NTFS? Fdisk does not see NTFS
logical drives in extended partitions regardless of DOS or fdisk versions.

John
 
fdisk isn't really needed for W2k/XP. Formatting and partitioning capability
is provided with the setup CDs for either of these.

If you want to get very fancy, buy Partition Magic. Gives full formatting
and partitioning control.

Snapshot
 
I'm trying to format or delete NTFS partitions when they got corrupted and W2k won't see them. Computer
Management didn't work either.
 
Take a look at the Disk Manager in W2K. It will allow you to repartion a
drive (with the same caveots as FDisk).

Mike Ober.
 
You can use delpart.exe to remove the partition. It's a DOS tool.
http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm You will then have to use fdisk
to recreate the partition and then format it. Windows 2000 should be
able to format it. If fdisk cannot recreate the partition you can use
BootItNG to recreate it http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ No need to
install BootItNG, just create the startup disk after you download it,
when you start the pc with the start disk click to cancel the
installation then use the partition work tool. For that matter,
BootItNG could also be used to delete the partition instead of delpart.

John
 
I'm trying to format or delete NTFS partitions when they got corrupted and W2k won't see them. Computer
Management didn't work either.
Click to expand...
It happens from time to time that 2000 does not see large disks. The
cure is:
Start/run/regedit
select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters
right click for new
Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case)
set value to 1
end regedit
reboot

Make sure before you do that: EnableBigLba is not already there - if
it is check that the value is set to 1.

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